Hotel Healdsburg

No man lives for bread, wine—or business—alone. So for planners seeking the perfect retreat for food and wine loving executives, Hotel Healdsburg combines all three. The hotel rests on the town square of Healdsburg, California, at the heart of Sonoma County wine country 70 miles north of San Francisco.

Delegates check in at a curving steel desk bathed in sunshine from skylights overhead. Upstairs, the 55 guest rooms and suites indulge them with six-foot soaking tubs, walk-in showers, Frette bathrobes, fine linens, goose-down comforters,Tibetan floor coverings, and French doors leading to balconies with views of the countryside or central courtyard garden.

More cutting-edge style accompanies the presentation of progressive American cuisine at Chef Charlie Palmer's Dry Creek Kitchen, the hotel's acclaimed restaurant. Catered events draw from the same talented chefs and palette of fresh, locally produced products and premium Sonoma wines. Groups come together outside on the courtyard's Event Green or inside at the Screened Porch, Rare Wine Library, Carriage House, or Grange Hall. The latter, the largest indoor space, accommodates groups of up to 80 with full audiovisual capabilities.

Hotel Healdsburg's combination of stylish meeting rooms, fine dining, guest rooms, gardens, pool, and spa make an ideal base from which to explore the town's historic plaza of shops and restaurants—not to mention some of the finest vineyards and wineries in the world.